Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot | TechCrunch
Had Yurts founder Ben Van Roo’s eyes been better, he might’ve followed in his family’s footsteps and joined the Air Force. “My whole family was in the Air Force. All of them are pilots,” he said, admitting later that, “my vision wasn’t quite there.”
Instead, he’s helping the military in a very Silicon Valley way: by founding an AI integration platform that can be deployed within high-security businesses. “We’re the first one on a secret network for the Department of Defense,” he said. His goal i...
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